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She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 8 months ago
We cannot hold America’s full faith and credit hostage, the debt ceiling is not something to be trifled with. – Mitch Landrieu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
President Biden and Senator Schumer have no right to play politics with the debt ceiling. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we got 218 to raise the debt ceiling, we’ve got a lot of consensus within the conference. We’ll get together and work through it. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So here is our plan: In the coming weeks, the House will vote on the bill to lift the debt ceiling into the next year, save taxpayers trillions of dollars, make us less dependent on China, curb our inflation, all without touching social security and Medicare. – Speaker McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The markets are too sanguine, the market has felt for months that this is like the little boy who cries wolf. But this is not a typical debt ceiling debate. – Greg Valliere	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think there’s one absolute: We’re not going to do a clean debt ceiling. – Garret Graves	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I treat myself as a continuation of the Indigenous movement. Every job title that I have held, I hope they let people know that Indigenous peoples have unlimited potential, and that nobody can restrain us by a glass ceiling. – Kolas Yotaka	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have flight attendants who have been thrown into the ceiling and then back down several times, resulting in broken limbs. In the aisle, with unannounced turbulence, we had people who lost toes, or lost the ability to work, or sustained injuries that kept them off the job for years. – Sara Nelson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can’t have a clean debt ceiling increase. – Brian Fitzpatrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
But we have to … keep working because the worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling, and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, and we don’t pay our debts. That’s unacceptable. – Brian Fitzpatrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our hope, of course, is that leadership and the White House are able to work something out, but we have to … keep working because the worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling, and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, and we don’t pay our debts. That’s unacceptable. – Josh Gottheimer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The ceiling fell in… the space in between the ceiling and wall is where I managed to survive. – Nasarullah Khan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are considerable downside risks to sentiment, with two-thirds of consumers expecting an economic downturn during the next year, notably, the debt ceiling debate looms ahead and could reverse the gains seen over the last several months; past debt ceiling crises in 2011 and 2013 prompted steep declines in consumer confidence. – Joanne Hsu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is not my position that we will never raise the debt ceiling — rather what the rules say is we will use the debt ceiling as leverage to force real and meaningful structural reforms to fix the underlying problem, [It] doesn't have to be a total solution for everything, but it has to be real and meaningful progress. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
When Nancy Pelosi was speaker, that’s what transpired. To get a debt ceiling, they also got a cap on spending for the next two years. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think you would be hard pressed to say [the debt ceiling debacle] was a positive thing, i think of it more as one other hurdle among a lot of other hurdles for the economy as it emerged from 9% unemployment at the time. – Michael Pugliese	Found on CNN 1 year ago
2011 was the first time in a long time that we came close to a debt ceiling breach, and that was a time when there was a lot of political fragmentation and there was a strong desire to essentially attach spending cuts to any debt ceiling increase. – Gregory Daco	Found on CNN 1 year ago
From both an economic and a financial perspective, a failure to raise the debt ceiling would be an unmitigated disaster. – David Kelly	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Effectively this is money that the government owes to itself, the government has promised it’s going to repay it. The only reason that it’s in a jam now is because of the debt ceiling. – Steven Pressman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Democrats always want to break the glass ceiling first and the media loves to embellish that narrative, republicans had the first female Supreme Court justice, but somehow that didn't count. – Grover Norquist	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a market that has been pressed to the ceiling. On top of that, the expectation is that new leasing will peak in August, which is expected to keep upper pressure on prices in the near term, i'm not sure how long this lasts after that, because at some point, for affordability, the math just doesn't work. – Jonathan Miller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was extremely difficult to get the additional air assets into the Bull Lake valley due to very poor weather conditions which consisted of rain, low visibility, and low ceiling. – Lincoln County Sheriff Office	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That is a possibility that I think is real, we have been a part of events at ATT Stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play as an example, where we'll take advantage of rigging opportunities from the ceiling and we'll do a raised floor to where the floor that the performance is on is eye-level to the suite-level of the stadium -- and kind of the general admission seats would be down below where no one would be. – Walter Kinzie	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
8 months ago

We cannot hold America’s full faith and credit hostage, the debt ceiling is not something to be trifled with.

– Mitch Landrieu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Biden and Senator Schumer have no right to play politics with the debt ceiling.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we got 218 to raise the debt ceiling, we’ve got a lot of consensus within the conference. We’ll get together and work through it.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So here is our plan: In the coming weeks, the House will vote on the bill to lift the debt ceiling into the next year, save taxpayers trillions of dollars, make us less dependent on China, curb our inflation, all without touching social security and Medicare.

– Speaker McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The markets are too sanguine, the market has felt for months that this is like the little boy who cries wolf. But this is not a typical debt ceiling debate.

– Greg Valliere

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there’s one absolute: We’re not going to do a clean debt ceiling.

– Garret Graves

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I treat myself as a continuation of the Indigenous movement. Every job title that I have held, I hope they let people know that Indigenous peoples have unlimited potential, and that nobody can restrain us by a glass ceiling.

– Kolas Yotaka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have flight attendants who have been thrown into the ceiling and then back down several times, resulting in broken limbs. In the aisle, with unannounced turbulence, we had people who lost toes, or lost the ability to work, or sustained injuries that kept them off the job for years.

– Sara Nelson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can’t have a clean debt ceiling increase.

– Brian Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But we have to … keep working because the worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling, and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, and we don’t pay our debts. That’s unacceptable.

– Brian Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our hope, of course, is that leadership and the White House are able to work something out, but we have to … keep working because the worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling, and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, and we don’t pay our debts. That’s unacceptable.

– Josh Gottheimer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The ceiling fell in… the space in between the ceiling and wall is where I managed to survive.

– Nasarullah Khan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are considerable downside risks to sentiment, with two-thirds of consumers expecting an economic downturn during the next year, notably, the debt ceiling debate looms ahead and could reverse the gains seen over the last several months; past debt ceiling crises in 2011 and 2013 prompted steep declines in consumer confidence.

– Joanne Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is not my position that we will never raise the debt ceiling — rather what the rules say is we will use the debt ceiling as leverage to force real and meaningful structural reforms to fix the underlying problem, [It] doesn't have to be a total solution for everything, but it has to be real and meaningful progress.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When Nancy Pelosi was speaker, that’s what transpired. To get a debt ceiling, they also got a cap on spending for the next two years.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think you would be hard pressed to say [the debt ceiling debacle] was a positive thing, i think of it more as one other hurdle among a lot of other hurdles for the economy as it emerged from 9% unemployment at the time.

– Michael Pugliese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

2011 was the first time in a long time that we came close to a debt ceiling breach, and that was a time when there was a lot of political fragmentation and there was a strong desire to essentially attach spending cuts to any debt ceiling increase.

– Gregory Daco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From both an economic and a financial perspective, a failure to raise the debt ceiling would be an unmitigated disaster.

– David Kelly

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Effectively this is money that the government owes to itself, the government has promised it’s going to repay it. The only reason that it’s in a jam now is because of the debt ceiling.

– Steven Pressman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democrats always want to break the glass ceiling first and the media loves to embellish that narrative, republicans had the first female Supreme Court justice, but somehow that didn't count.

– Grover Norquist

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a market that has been pressed to the ceiling. On top of that, the expectation is that new leasing will peak in August, which is expected to keep upper pressure on prices in the near term, i'm not sure how long this lasts after that, because at some point, for affordability, the math just doesn't work.

– Jonathan Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was extremely difficult to get the additional air assets into the Bull Lake valley due to very poor weather conditions which consisted of rain, low visibility, and low ceiling.

– Lincoln County Sheriff Office

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That is a possibility that I think is real, we have been a part of events at ATT Stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play as an example, where we'll take advantage of rigging opportunities from the ceiling and we'll do a raised floor to where the floor that the performance is on is eye-level to the suite-level of the stadium -- and kind of the general admission seats would be down below where no one would be.

– Walter Kinzie

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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